Early Music articles from August 1998

Early Music archives from August 1998

Jose Zaragoza's box: science and music in Charles II's Spain.
August 1, 1998... On 6 November 1675, on his 14th birthday, Prince Charles succeeded to the Spanish throne. To mark the occasion, Juan Francisco de la Cerda, Duke of Medinaceli and head of the Royal Chamber, presented the young king with a box of various...

The minuet: painter-musicians in triple time.
August 1, 1998... In his article `A Florentine harpsichord' in the February issue of Early music (xxvi/1 (1998), pp.70-85) David P. Jensen discussed an anonymous Italian instrument whose inner lid decoration is based on Giandomenico Tiepolo's Minuetto con...

O socii durate: a musical correspondence from the time of Philip II.
August 1, 1998... Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-86) was one of the most fascinating personalities to have patronized the arts in the second half of the 16th century. He played a crucial role both as a prince of the church and as a politician in the...

Music for the gods? A dispute concerning Francesco Lucio's 'Gl'amori di Alessandro Magno, e di Rossane.'
August 1, 1998... Public opera began in Venice in 1637. In under five years four theatres were engaged in competition: S. Cassiano (1637) was joined by SS. Giovanni e Paolo (1639), S. Moise (1640) and the Novissimo (1641). The composers responsible for the...

Purcell's revisions to the funeral sentences revisited. (composer Henry Purcell)
August 1, 1998... Howard Mayer Brown once suggested that scholars who work with Renaissance manuscript sources must be a little envious of their counterparts studying 19th-century sources, since they do not benefit from the many extant sketches and drafts...

A unique cantus firmus usage in a 15th-century English Mass movement.
August 1, 1998... In the course of research into the music of John Benet I recently made a discovery concerning an anonymous English Credo. Not only is the superius part of this Mass movement based on a previously unrecognized cantus firmus, but the cantus...

How to make a saint: on interpreting Hildegard of Bingen.
August 1, 1998... Not long before he died the writer James Cameron explained that, whenever he was asked about his attitude to God, he called himself an agnostic even though he was really an atheist. He reasoned that an atheist would be forced to prove to a...

Flemish Polyphony.
August 1, 1998... Ignace Bossuyt, Flemish polyphony (Leuven: Davidsfonds, 1994), 24.99 [pounds sterling] The second thing that strikes one while leafing through Flemish polyphony is the quality and diversity of its illustrations. There are portraits or...

The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice.
August 1, 1998... James Grier, The critical editing of music: history, method, and practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 35 [pounds sterling] hardback, 12.95 [pounds sterling] paperback Another book about editing? Well, this one's different!...

Welsh Music History.
August 1, 1998... Welsh music history, ed. John Harper (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), i (1996), ii (1997), 15 [pounds sterling] This new journal springs from the recently established Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies at the University of Wales,...

Fr. Martin de Villanueva: Obras Completas.
August 1, 1998... Fr. Martin de Villanueva ([dagger]1605): Obras completas, ed. Jose Sierra Perez, Maestros de Capilla del Monasterio de San Lorenzo el Real del Escorial (Madrid: Ediciones Escurialenses, 1997), 3,500 ptas This is the first volume to appear in...

Francois Regnard: Integrale des motets, 1590.
August 1, 1998... Francois Regnard: Integrale des motets, 1590, ed. Jean-Pierre Ouvrard and Isabelle His, 4 vols. (Paris: Editions Salabert, 1995), 21.65 [pounds sterling], 32.60 [pounds sterling], 37.50 [pounds sterling], 28.25 [pounds sterling] respectively...

Francois Regnard: Chansons a quatre voix, 1579.
August 1, 1998... Francois Regnard: Chansons a quatre voix, 1579, ed. Jean-Pierre Ouvrard and Jeanice Brooks (Paris: Editions Salabert, 1995), 25.90 [pounds sterling] By chance I found myself reading these volumes when spending a few days in Lille, a city...

Ballades a iii. chans de Johan Robert 'Trebor' & al.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

Fleur de vertus: chanson subtiles a la fin du XIVe siecle.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

'En doulz chatel de pavie': chansons a la cours des Visconti vers 1400.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

D'amor ragionando: ballades du neo-Stilnovo en Italie, 1380-1415.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

En attendant: l'art de la citation dans l'Italie des Visconti, 1380-1410.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

Perusio: virelais, ballades, caccia.
August 1, 1998... The sophisticated and complex style of the late Ars Nova--variously dubbed the `mannerist' or `Ars Subtilior' style--continues to capture the imagination of performers and listeners alike. The complexity of its musical language, its extensive...

Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus, Motets a la Vierge.
August 1, 1998... In what may be their most exciting recording to date, the newest release from A Sei Voci, Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus, Motets a la Vierge (Astree E 8612, rec 1997), provides a lucid illustration of both the advantages and possible pitfalls...

Missa Alleluia: Muziek aan het Bourgondische hof.
August 1, 1998... In what may be their most exciting recording to date, the newest release from A Sei Voci, Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus, Motets a la Vierge (Astree E 8612, rec 1997), provides a lucid illustration of both the advantages and possible pitfalls...

Pierre de La Rue: Missa de Feria, Missa Sancta Dei genitrix.
August 1, 1998... In what may be their most exciting recording to date, the newest release from A Sei Voci, Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus, Motets a la Vierge (Astree E 8612, rec 1997), provides a lucid illustration of both the advantages and possible pitfalls...

Obrecht: Malheur me bat, motets by Obrecht and Martini.
August 1, 1998... In what may be their most exciting recording to date, the newest release from A Sei Voci, Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus, Motets a la Vierge (Astree E 8612, rec 1997), provides a lucid illustration of both the advantages and possible pitfalls...

Las ensaladas.
August 1, 1998... The ensalada (literally `salad') has been relatively little studied as a genre, and almost nothing is known of its performance circumstances. It flourished for the greater part of the 16th century, although the precise dates of the surviving...

Canciones y ensaladas: chansons et pieces instrumentales du Siecle d'Or.
August 1, 1998... The ensalada (literally `salad') has been relatively little studied as a genre, and almost nothing is known of its performance circumstances. It flourished for the greater part of the 16th century, although the precise dates of the surviving...

Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci.
August 1, 1998... `First' books of madrigals, like first symphonies, are always interesting, especially if their composers went on to become a Monteverdi or a Frescobaldi. There is the usual danger of reading too much into youthful first fruits--as such...

Quinto libro de' madrigali.
August 1, 1998... `First' books of madrigals, like first symphonies, are always interesting, especially if their composers went on to become a Monteverdi or a Frescobaldi. There is the usual danger of reading too much into youthful first fruits--as such...

Madrigali.
August 1, 1998... `First' books of madrigals, like first symphonies, are always interesting, especially if their composers went on to become a Monteverdi or a Frescobaldi. There is the usual danger of reading too much into youthful first fruits--as such...

Primo libro dei madrigali.
August 1, 1998... `First' books of madrigals, like first symphonies, are always interesting, especially if their composers went on to become a Monteverdi or a Frescobaldi. There is the usual danger of reading too much into youthful first fruits--as such...

Arie musicali: versione integrale.
August 1, 1998... `First' books of madrigals, like first symphonies, are always interesting, especially if their composers went on to become a Monteverdi or a Frescobaldi. There is the usual danger of reading too much into youthful first fruits--as such...

C.P.E. Bach: 5 flute sonatas.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

W.F. Bach: Concertos pour clavecin et cordes.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

Polonaises & fantasies.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

J.C. Bach: Symphonies op.8.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

J.C.F. Bach: Sonates en trio.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

Johann Schobert: Four sonatas, op.16.
August 1, 1998... A seemingly homogeneous collection of discs from four of J.S. Bach's sons and their contemporary Johann Schobert turns out to be much more diverse and challenging than one might expect, giving a strong impression of the variety of...

Music as heard.
August 1, 1998... Until recently the phrase `music as heard', when referring to a pre-1600 repertory, was almost always employed and understood in its literal sense establishing the musical text--with concomitant perennial efforts directed at the thorny,...

Nino Pirrotta (1908-98).(Obituary)
August 1, 1998... With the death of Nino Pirrotta the world of early music has lost one of its magisterial figures and Italian musicology one of its founding fathers. Born in Palermo in 1908, Pirrotta began his musical career by training as an organist, first at...